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Fire in the Blood

Review by James Urquhart

Published: November 3 2008 05:41 | Last updated: November 3 2008 05:41

Fire in the Blood
By Irène Némirovsky
Translated by Sandra Smith
Vintage £7.99, 153 pages
FT Bookshop price: £6.39

Set in the same provincial culture as Némirovsky’s posthumous Suite Française, this recently discovered novella is a neatly orchestrated chamber piece of murder and adultery.

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